Microsoft's Open Office XML specifications will be scrutinised by government technocrats in Geneva this week to determine if improvements Microsoft has made to it overcome technical problems noted by ISO members last September.
International standards consortium OASIS has expanded to include security advocacy group PKI Forum, a move which is being touted as a key driver for the use of public-key infrastructure.
The Queensland government has developed an IT security kit it hopes its agencies will use to self-assess their compliance against government security standards.
A Web services directory effort spawned by Microsoft, IBM and Ariba has been updated before its submission to an industry standards body.
Two international standards bodies have teamed up on a forum about Web services, in a bid to clarify what's really going on.
International standards consortium OASIS has expanded to include security advocacy group PKI Forum, a move which is being touted as a key driver for the use of public-key infrastructure.
A Web services directory effort spawned by Microsoft, IBM and Ariba has been updated before its submission to an industry standards body.
Two international standards bodies have teamed up on a forum about Web services, in a bid to clarify what's really going on.
Linux users can now run Office XP on Linux following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.
Anti-virus experts have called for more staff training on the perils of using instant messaging, and claim that like e-mail, users should know the dos and don'ts before being allowed to run it.
United States-based security company @stake (atstake.com) has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.
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